Romanian Orthodox Synod Disciplines Bishop For Intercommunion With Catholics
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Bucharest, Jul 11, 2008 / 06:03 am (CNA).- The Pious Synod of the Romanian At once Church has powerful to "justification" two At once bishops for their support in goody-goody means with Eastern Catholics. All the same, it warned that no At once parson may band sacraments or blessings with ministers of other religions on pain of excommunication.
Nicolae Corneanu, the At once Metropolitan Bishop of Banat, had incensed disagreement formerly being paid Pious Communion at home a Greek Catholic Barrier in Timisoara on May 25. The synod's compassion has reportedly unwavering the disagreement, according to the SIR Information Channel.
"The Pious Eucharist is not a type and a warm up towards the unity of the Christian Church, but the secret rally of the unity of the Church, its devise," confirmed Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian At once Church in a expression to the synod.
Patriarch Daniel reportedly intended to reassert the source agreement of At once ecclesiology and ecumenism. He supposed that such gestures of "supposed inter-communion" in fact "slow the prejudiced differences together with the At once Church and the Catholic Church and knock the unity of creed as the base of the rebuilding of the communion together with the two Churches."
The Patriarch reiterated that it is banned for At once believers to flagrant the Eucharist in a various Church.
He also supposed the result does not sketch to elegance other Christians "with grandiosity or disparagement" or to strife theological crack.
"Scheduled a really, significant theological crack, the dogmas that soul the Catholic Church from the At once Church can be redefined," he concluded.
Pioneer Francisc Dobos, lecturer for the Catholic See of Bucharest, responded to the result, saying in a impose discharge, "We swallow it is tally for every Church to relax its own sweat according to its own ideas and set of laws. We are solid that the crack together with the two Churches chi move on, towards a communion from the self-same chalice."
The Romanian synod also "forgave" Bishop Sofronie of Oradea, atypical At once prelate, who had recognized the blessing of holy water with the Greek Catholic Bishop of Oradea, Virgil Bercea, on "Twelfth Of the night," the sunset of Epiphany.
"The Pious Synod disapproved of the non-canonical gestures ready by the two leaders and streamer their transformation of thoughts and apology as a young sign of their modification," read a impose discharge from the Romanian At once Patriarchate.
Nicolae Corneanu, the At once Metropolitan Bishop of Banat, had incensed disagreement formerly being paid Pious Communion at home a Greek Catholic Barrier in Timisoara on May 25. The synod's compassion has reportedly unwavering the disagreement, according to the SIR Information Channel.
"The Pious Eucharist is not a type and a warm up towards the unity of the Christian Church, but the secret rally of the unity of the Church, its devise," confirmed Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian At once Church in a expression to the synod.
Patriarch Daniel reportedly intended to reassert the source agreement of At once ecclesiology and ecumenism. He supposed that such gestures of "supposed inter-communion" in fact "slow the prejudiced differences together with the At once Church and the Catholic Church and knock the unity of creed as the base of the rebuilding of the communion together with the two Churches."
The Patriarch reiterated that it is banned for At once believers to flagrant the Eucharist in a various Church.
He also supposed the result does not sketch to elegance other Christians "with grandiosity or disparagement" or to strife theological crack.
"Scheduled a really, significant theological crack, the dogmas that soul the Catholic Church from the At once Church can be redefined," he concluded.
Pioneer Francisc Dobos, lecturer for the Catholic See of Bucharest, responded to the result, saying in a impose discharge, "We swallow it is tally for every Church to relax its own sweat according to its own ideas and set of laws. We are solid that the crack together with the two Churches chi move on, towards a communion from the self-same chalice."
The Romanian synod also "forgave" Bishop Sofronie of Oradea, atypical At once prelate, who had recognized the blessing of holy water with the Greek Catholic Bishop of Oradea, Virgil Bercea, on "Twelfth Of the night," the sunset of Epiphany.
"The Pious Synod disapproved of the non-canonical gestures ready by the two leaders and streamer their transformation of thoughts and apology as a young sign of their modification," read a impose discharge from the Romanian At once Patriarchate.